Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

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

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

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...

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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