A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.