Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

You can't unscramble an egg.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.