Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.