Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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

What is well done is done soon enough.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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 barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Luck never mad a mad man wise

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.