The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

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

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

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.