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

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man