It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.