Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?