There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Nevercut what you can untie.

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

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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

What is well done is done soon enough.

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.