It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

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.