Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

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