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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Stability is not immobility

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise