It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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.