Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.