Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.