Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

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.

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...

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.