It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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...

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.