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

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.