People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.