Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

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

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

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.