Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.