If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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…