Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

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

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.