A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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.

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...

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.