Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

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.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.