It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.