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.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

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

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.