Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

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.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war