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

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare