In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Allthings at first appear difficult.