The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.