A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

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

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

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.

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

There is a slogan written in the entrance gate of all schools in JAPAN ."IF U CANNOT DO, NO OTHER HUMAN IN THE WORLD CAN DO IT".Believe in YOURSELF.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.