Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.