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

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...

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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

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

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.