“The latest & loudest thing in your psyche is seldom the most important thing that should take up residence there.”

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“Political philosophy seems often to reside at a distance from the world. Principles are one thing, politics another, and even our best efforts to live up to our ideals seldom fully succeed.”

“Knowledge is not the most important thing. The most important is your political quality and moral quality.”

“The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.”

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

“The most important thing you do in your life is to die.”

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”

“If somebody puts a big list of things up, my question is always: what is the most important thing on that list.”