It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

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

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.