No strength within, no respect without.

The comforter's head never aches.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.