Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

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

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

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.