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.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

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

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

Suspicion begets suspicion.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?