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

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Those who trust us educate us.