The present is never a happy state to any being

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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 greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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