Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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…

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.