A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

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

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

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…

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.