Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.