A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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