Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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