Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.