It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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...

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.