Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.