To be preparedis half the victory.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

Opportunists take now for an answer.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

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

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.