Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Power comes from sincere service

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

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

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.