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

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.