You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.