Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.