Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

People say law but they mean wealth.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They