Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

The property of power is to protect.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.