Stability is not immobility

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

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

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.