The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

What is well done is done soon enough.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

A half truth is a whole lie.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.