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

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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…

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.