Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.