You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

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

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.