Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.