The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.