Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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…

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.