In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.Lao Tzu
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.Nelson Mandela
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.Bernard Shaw
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.Michel de Montaigne
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.Benjamin Franklin
My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating my perspective.Michel de Montaigne
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.Bernard Shaw
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.Nelson Mandela
In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.Mark Twain
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.Blaise Pascal
