Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.