Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different 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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.