One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The present is never a happy state to any being