The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A half truth is a whole lie.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.