Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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 good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

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

Patience is the art of hoping.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.