Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

He whoangers you, conquers you.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.