A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.