The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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...

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.