The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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.