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

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Every advantage has its tax

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.