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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

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 prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.