Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

What isthe shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback isone of the essential elements of good communication.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.