The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

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

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.