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

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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