The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sun Tzu

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
Pope John Paul II

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Marcus Aurelius

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
Tom Landry

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball