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

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.