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

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

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

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Those who trust us educate us.

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

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.