What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.