The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Well done is better than well said.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.