Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Those who trust us educate us.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.