Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

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

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.