The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.