Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

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

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.