You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

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

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

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.