Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.