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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.