There is no knowledge that is not power.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.