The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

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

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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...

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.