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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

I said to the almond tree, ���'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore