Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

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

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.