Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

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

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

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

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

The measure of a man is what he does with power.