Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Example is better than following it.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.