Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Stability is not immobility

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.