A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out