Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

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

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.