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.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

As long as there is life there is danger.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.