An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

The property of power is to protect.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.