Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

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

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.