Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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…

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

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