Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

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

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

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.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.