Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

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

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.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.