We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

A language is like living skin itself.