A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
Morihei Ueshiba

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
Marilyn vos Savant