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.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

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

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 majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.