Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.