Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.