Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Renown and repose do not go together.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.