Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

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

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.