The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking