Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.