Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.