Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

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

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

The present is never a happy state to any being