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

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.