The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.