Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

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

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.