Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

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

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

You can't unscramble an egg.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Ittakes time to save time.