The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

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

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.