If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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...

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The property of power is to protect.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.