Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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...

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.