All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

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

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

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.