We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.