Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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