All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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 hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.