Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

You can't unscramble an egg.

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 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.