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.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

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