A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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