An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

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

Money is what things run into and people run out of

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'