Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.