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

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.