Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

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

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise