Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

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

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.