A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character