Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

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 things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

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

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.