One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

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

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

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.