A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.