Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.