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.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.