In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

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

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.