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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The property of power is to protect.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.