Wisdom

It is better to serve than be served.

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Man is what he reads.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

A word after a word after a word is power.

You never too old to Become wiser !T.B.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.