Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

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