In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

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

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.