No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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 mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.