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

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.