One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.