Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

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

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.