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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing