There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.