It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

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

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.