A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

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

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.