Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

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

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.