Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

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