Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

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.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.