The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.