The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.