Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.