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

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

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.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.