Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.