Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Money is what things run into and people run out of