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 half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.