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

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

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

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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 cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.