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

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Pain is the outcome of sin.