People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

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