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

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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

The property of power is to protect.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.