"It occurred on the evening before Waterloo, And troops were lined up on parade, The Sergeant inspecting 'em he was a terror, Of whom every man was afraid"

"'Sam, Sam, pick oop tha' musket' The Duke said as quiet as could be, 'Sam, Sam Sam Sam, pick oop tha' musket, Coom on lad, just to please me"

"All excepting one man who was in the front rank, A man by the name of Sam Small, And 'im and the Sergeant were both 'daggers drawn', They thought 'nowt' of each other at all"

"As Sergeant walks past he was swinging his arms, And he happened to brush against Sam, And knocking his musket clean out of his hand, It fell to the ground with a slam"

"Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts."

"There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear."

"When one flowers dies, another is born."

"Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy."

"A man must either fall or rise in adversity."

"I believe our only hope of immortality lies in our actions, in what we do to and for others, and in our children."

"The mad can make their own laws."

"On earth there are frontiers, in the sky there are none."

"The journey is what matters."

"Behind the apparent unreason there is reason."

"I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception."

"But some children have clearer vision than adults."

"In some way the material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told, dissolving into nothingness like a vision."

"In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy."

"Without mankind machines are nothing."

"The colour of the skin is less important than the spirit wich moves it."

"And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity."

"To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty."

"Courage has many faces."

"Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look."

"Men who are afraid live longer."

"But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear."

"Life itself has become ludicrous."

"What is god but an extension of the ego - a sort of megalomania by proxy?"

"Mankind has never been renowned for accepting logical solutions to its most serious problems. As a rule, the degre of logicality of solutions seemed to vary inversely with the urgency or seriousness of the problems."

"In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary."

"Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men."

"Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death."

"The real struggle is between order and anarchy."

"But then history was made by fools."

"Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective."

"Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality."

"Destiny knows no favorites."

"But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope."

"For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes."

"Thus, ultimately, there never could be an absolute end; just as there never could have been an absolute beginning. There could only be a continuous unfolding."

"For death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey."

"He who expects little is rarely disappointed."

"All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse."

"There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God."

"All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life."

"There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history."

"But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love."

"It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively."

"It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment."

"There is no acceptable true image."