He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.