Genius is a long impatience.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

To beprepared is half the victory.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.