If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.