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

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

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.