At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...