The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

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

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.