Only the educated are free.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

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

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.