Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist