One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

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

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

No strength within, no respect without.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to