It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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 great despisers are the greater reverers.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.