A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.