It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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