If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.