Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

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 you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Necessity truns lion into fox.