It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.