If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

A room without books is a body without soul

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.