Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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...

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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