Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

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

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The property of power is to protect.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Nostrength within, no respect without.