Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.