Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

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

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.