Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

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

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.