You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

The object of the superior man is truth.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

The lie is a condition of life.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.