We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.