Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Where there is love there is life.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Information is not knowledge.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Research is creating new knowledge.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.