Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing