Habit: the shackles of the free

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.