Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

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...

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.