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

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

The property of power is to protect.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.