Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The present is never a happy state to any being

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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