A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

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

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

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...

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.