The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.