The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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

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.