We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

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.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.