Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

A man of courage is also full of faith.