Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.