The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.