We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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