Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.