The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.