Sweet is pleasure after pain

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

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.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare