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

Only the educated are free.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.