A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

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

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.