Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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!

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

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

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.