Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

No strength within, no respect without.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.