To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

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

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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