Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Allthings at first appear difficult.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.