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

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.