Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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...

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.