I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Renown and repose do not go together.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Instead of focusing on big goals,focus on small goals.Small victories always lead to large ones.Swami Vivekanand..

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

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

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness