To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Faith is continuation of reason.