A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

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

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.