Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

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.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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