Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.