As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free