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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Our distrust is very expensive.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

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