Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

Your ability to consummate Leadership or follower-ship brings fulfillment at each appointed time in life

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.