Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.