A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Ittakes time to save time.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.