Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

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…

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.