One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.