The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.