Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant