Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

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…

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination