A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Well done is better than well said.

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.

The greatest prayer is patience.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government