Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

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

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .