If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them