The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.