It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

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

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination