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

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.