Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

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.

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

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.