Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Compromise,n. 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.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Ifyou are 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 makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.