Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.