We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

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

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

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

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.