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.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.