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

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.