Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.