Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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