The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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 most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

You can't unscramble an egg.

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

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.