Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

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

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.