If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.