Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

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

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.