Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

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