Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

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

Nostrength within, no respect without.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.