Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

If youare 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.

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

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.