Power tires only those who do not have it.

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

A room without books is a body without soul

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.