If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.