Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Our errors are steps on the way.