To beprepared is half the victory.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

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.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

A danger forseen is half avoided.