Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

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

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out