It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

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

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.