Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

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

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

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

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.