Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

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

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.