Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

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...