The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

What is well done is done soon enough.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.