Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.