Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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