You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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...

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.