Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.