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

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

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 man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.