Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

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

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.