A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.