As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.