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

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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.