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

Every advantage has its tax

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares