If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will we say to each other.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Each soul should know the sacred spirit.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.