It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

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

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.