A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.