Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.