We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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

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 difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.