Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.