Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge