128 Quotes by James Richardson

Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.

Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.

I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.

Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.

The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.