The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

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

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 surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.