Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

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

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.