Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

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

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Our distrust is very expensive.

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…

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.