The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

The property of power is to protect.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.