Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

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 fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.