Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.