The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

A language is like living skin itself.

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

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise