We arethe prisoners of ideas.

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.