Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Every advantage has its tax

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.