Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

For I am nothing if not critical.