Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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