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

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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