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

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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.

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

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.