The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen