Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

God has created the world in play.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much