Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Neversay more than is necessary.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.