As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.