Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.