Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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…

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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