Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

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

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.