It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.