Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

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