Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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...

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.