Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

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

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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…

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.