No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Get mad, then get over it.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.