Flatter yourself critically.

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

Flattery works like a drug.