Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

I did not lose myself all at once.

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.