Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

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

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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