I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side