He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

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

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

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

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.