Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

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

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.