Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

The property of power is to protect.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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…

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.