The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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