Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Every advantage has its tax

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Power comes from sincere service

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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