A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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