Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...