True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.