The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them