Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

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

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.