Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.