A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares