A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to