Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

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

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.