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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him