Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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

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

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

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.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.