The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

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

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.