Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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

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

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.