I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.