It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

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

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.