Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

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

Genius is a long impatience.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

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.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.