Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character