“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.