The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Be not simply good - be good for something.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.