Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

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.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.