A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.