Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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