If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.