An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.