Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

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

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The property of power is to protect.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.