Genius is a long impatience.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.