Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.