Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist