Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.