Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.