A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.