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

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

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.

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

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.