Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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…

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.