We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

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

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

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