Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Example is better than following it.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.