Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

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

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

God made time, but man made haste.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.