Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

You can't unscramble an egg.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.