Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.