Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.