It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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…

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.