Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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...

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.