To teach isto learn twice.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.