The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..