Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.