Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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 half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.