If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.