Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

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

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.