When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.