Quotations calcify into clichés.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Money solves nothing but it eases everything.

Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.