Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.