No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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.