The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.