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

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

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

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

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.