If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

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 moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.