A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

The first duty of love is to listen.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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

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.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

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

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.