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

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Power comes from sincere service

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Power tires only those who do not have it.