Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

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…

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.