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.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

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.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e