The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.