Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.