Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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 cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.