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

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

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

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Neversay more than is necessary.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.