Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

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

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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...

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.