A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

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

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.