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

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

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.