Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.