To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Every advantage has its tax

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

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.