The greatest prayer is patience.

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

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.