Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

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