Anempty sack cannot stand up.

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's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.