If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

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

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.