By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

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.