The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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…

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

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