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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.