The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

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

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They