Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

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

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.