Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.