Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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...

Our power is in our ability to decide.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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