Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.