Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it