Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

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

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

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