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

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.