One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

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

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.