Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Skill inthe art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplishnothing unless he can communicate effectively.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

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

A room without books is a body without soul

Luck never mad a mad man wise

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves