The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.