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

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Renown and repose do not go together.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.