The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.