Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.