Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.