All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.