Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.