Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.