It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

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

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you