When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

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

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.