Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Necessity truns lion into fox.