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

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

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…