Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.