A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Those who trust us educate us.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

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

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.