If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.