Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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...

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.