The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

God has created the world in play.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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

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

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