In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

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

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.