The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Faith is continuation of reason.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.