The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.