Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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.

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

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.