Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

When a man meets his mates society begins.