The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

The property of power is to protect.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

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...

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.