Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.