No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Our distrust is very expensive.

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

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

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.