You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

An expert is a man, who dosent has all the answers, but he is sure that if that he is given enough money he can find them.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

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

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.