Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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...