Never answer a letter while you are angry.

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

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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