When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.