If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.