Genius is a long impatience.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

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

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.