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

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination