The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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