The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

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