The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Only the educated are free.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.