If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of 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

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.