We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

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

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.