A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

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

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.