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

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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 oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

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.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.