A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.