I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…