A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Those who trust us educate us.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Suspicion begets suspicion.