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

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.