The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

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.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.