The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.