The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.