A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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