Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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...

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.