Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

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

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.