Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.