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

Ittakes time to save time.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.