A Leader is a dealer in hope.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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 lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.