Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

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

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.