At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.