Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom. . . ' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.
Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.
When the artist observes nature. . . it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.
I have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.
Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.
