You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.