To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Throughconflict we get to unity.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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