The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

They know enough who know how to learn.

God has created the world in play.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.