It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

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

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.