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

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.