Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits