Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.