Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.