Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

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 most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.