It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

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

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?