Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.