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

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it