A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.