Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

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.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.