A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

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

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 prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind