Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd rather have been talking.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

'It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.'

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.