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

Ittakes time to save time.

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

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.