I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

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

You can't unscramble an egg.

When weblame, we give away our power.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.