Be your own judge and you will be happy.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

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 bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.