Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

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

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived