Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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 possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.