The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.