Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

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.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.