Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

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

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.