A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.