The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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…

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.