Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.