The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.