Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.