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

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Stability is not immobility

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.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.