Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.