All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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

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.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.