Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Ability is poor men's wealth

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.