Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

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 who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.