Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

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

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

As long as there is life there is danger.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.