A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.