Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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...