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

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

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

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.