All thingsat first appear difficult.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.