Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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