What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

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

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

God has created the world in play.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.