Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!