A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

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...

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.