Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

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

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

The present is never a happy state to any being