Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Life is different than teacher, A Teacher teaches lesson, then keeps the exam. But the life keeps the exam first, then teaches the lesson,

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di