The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of 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

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.