Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.