"Thoughts come through people, not from them."

"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"It's not often that I get the benefit of the doubt."

"By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light."

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."

"Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds."

"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what seperates us from the animals. Except the weasels."

"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission."

"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after."

"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed."

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

"A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts."