There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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...

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.