Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

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.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

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.