Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

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.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.