Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

To teach isto learn twice.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.