A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

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

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.