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

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.