You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

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

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.