Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

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

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

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